Lieberman: Pace of Settlement Construction is Unprecedented Since 2000

Minister of the Israeli army, Avigdor Lieberman, said “The current pace of construction and settlements expansion in the last year in the occupied West Bank is unprecedented since 2000.”

Maariv daily newspaper reported on Wednesday his talk “Since the beginning of the year 2017, construction has been underway for about 3,000 housing units, and there are about 7,500 additional construction plans.”

Lieberman added “We are working at a pace that we have not seen since 2000. What we have now (West Bank) is much higher, on average, than we have known before.”